Study: Tea Boosts Immune System. Spanish actress Silvia Tortosa touches the hand of the wax figure of U.S. President Barack Obama during its presentation in the Wax Museum of Madrid in Madrid Monday June 15, 2009. (AP Photo/EFE, Gustavo Cuevas) ** NO SALES, LATIN AMERICA, CARIBBEAN AND SPAIN OUT ** AP Photo/EFE, Gustavo Cuevas Drinking tea may help keep the doctor away. A new study finds that tea boosts the body's defenses against infection and contains a substance that might be turned into a drug to protect against disease, researchers say. A component in tea was found in laboratory experiments to prime the immune system to attack invading bacteria, viruses and fungi, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences released Monday. A second experiment, using human volunteers, showed that immune system blood cells from tea drinkers responded five times faster to germs than did the blood cells of coffee drinkers. "This is potentially a very significant finding," she said.
How To Grow Tea. Grow your own tea - can you do that? The short answer is yes. All tea comes from the same plant (Camellia sinensis) and you can grow your own, if you're so inclined. Now, if you have visions of popping some seeds in the dirt, picking tea leaves a few months later, steeping them and kicking back to marvel at your skill, hold on a minute. It's not quite that simple. If you're going to make a serious commitment to growing tea with the intention of one day harvesting and drinking it, there are a few things to consider.
First and foremost is that harvest day - assuming everything goes well - is not likely to arrive for a few years. The other important point to consider is location, location, location or perhaps more specifically - climate, climate, climate. If you'd like to take a crack at growing tea plants from seed, look here and here for supplies. IQ Innovations 51552 Fine T 4-Cup Gourmet Tea Machine Zarafina Tea Maker Suite. Lemon-Ginger Iced Tea. Wikipedia- Health effects of coffee. Brewed beverage made from the seed of Coffea species Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, the seeds of berries from certain Coffea species. All fruit must be further processed from a raw material—the fruit and seed—into a stable, raw product; un-roasted, green coffee. To process the berries, the seed is separated from the fruit to produce green coffee. Green coffee is then roasted, a process which transforms the raw product (green coffee) into a consumable product (roasted coffee).
Roasted coffee is ground into a powder and mixed with water to produce a cup of coffee. Clinical research indicates that moderate coffee consumption is benign or mildly beneficial as a stimulant in healthy adults, with continuing research on whether long-term consumption reduces the risk of some diseases, although some of the long-term studies are of questionable credibility.[5] The two most commonly grown coffee bean types are C. arabica and C. robusta. Etymology History Biology Production. Monterey Bay. Teavana.